| Name |
Mark Blythe (Marky B) |
| Place of Birth |
Dallas, Texas, USA |
| Main Instrument |
Electric bass and occasional Lead Vocals |
| Equipment |
1 - Custom Fender Hybrid ‘Marky B’ Bass: Candy Apple Red, 60’s style P-Bass body with a bound rosewood 70’s style J-Bass neck
1 - Fender American Series P-Bass, Teal Green w/rosewood neck
1 - Fender ‘Geddy Lee’ Signature J-Bass (prototype). One of two made for Geddy’s approval, I own one of them. Oh yeah, it’s autographed too.
1 - Amplification: Sunn 1200S, 1200 Watt bass amp,
2 - Fender Custom Shop ‘Rumble Bass’ cabinets (4-10” ea.), one sub and one 2-way cabinet. (I use a variety of Fender Professional Bass amplifiers and cabinets, depending on the situation. Fender has really come a long way with their bass amplifiers and you can’t go wrong with ANY Fender bass amp they make. They take good care of me.)
Fender Pro-Tone and Carver Instrument/Speaker Cables
Fender NPS .045 -.105 Bass Strings
Extra Heavy Tortoise Shell 351 ‘Marky B’ guitar picks
Shure Beta 58
Shure SM-57 |
| Occupation |
Parts Manager for Fender (working for the man!) |
| Favorite Band(s) |
Rush, Scorpions, KISS, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin, King's X, STP, Eric Johnson, Fire Alley, Yes, Burt Bacharach, Tchaikovsky |
| Favorite Song(s) |
There's too many to count, but my favorites today are 10 Years Gone: Led Zeppelin, Victory: E. Johnson, Digital Man: Rush, and Amazing Grace. |
| Favorite Food(s) |
I like all foods EXCEPT BLUE CHEESE!!!!!!!!!!!!! It tastes like ants!!! It's hard to explain. |
| Favorite Drink(s) |
Diet Coke w/Lime, domestic and Australian wines, quality micro-brews, Dewar's Scotch Whisky. |
| Favorite Movie(s) |
I'm a big movie buff. The Great Race, Airplane, Saving Private Ryan, Rush in Rio, Matrix, Blazing Saddles...... |
| Favorite Book(s) |
Sphere: Michael Crichton, The 60 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time: Vankin & Whalen, Tesla-Man - Out of Time: Margaret Cheney, and The Bible: God |
| Favorite Sport(s) |
I'm not much of a 'sportster', but I do like to watch basketball and baseball. |
| Loves |
My family, travel, food, music, guitars, church, my country (I know it's sappy but it's true), hanging out and jamming with my band mates. |
| Hobbies |
Guitar construction (I'm a certified Luthier), hiking, camping, bicycling, people watching (but not in a voyeur kind of way), |
